THE WORD is out. The Commissioner of Police, Major General (retired) Antony Anderson, is likely to vacate the post some time in 2024. He was appointed in March 2018 and will have completed six or more years in the JCF (Jamaica Constabulary Force)...
LAST WEEK I wrote about the real possibility that Jamaica was facing a crisis of having a rapidly ageing population, and asked if we, as a country, were concerned about our Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 1.9. Against the background that a TFR of 2.1...
Cynics will perhaps mock Prime Minister Andrew Holness for admitting that the campaign for the municipal elections has heightened his awareness of how disconnected Jamaicans are from local government, and how little confidence they have in their...
Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2024 | 12:08 AM
On February 7, 2024, an overturned vessel off the southern shores of Tobago caused a catastrophic spill with oil-like substance, leading Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley to declare a national emergency. Distressing photographs...
Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2024 | 12:08 AM
This newspaper repeats a suggestion that it made repeatedly in recent times regarding public transportation. End the finger-in-the-dyke approach to the problem in favour of a broad, imaginative, multi-sectoral perspective on solutions. In that...
Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2024 | 12:08 AM
Next week will see the CARICOM Secretariat and its member states attending two important meetings – its own 46th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference to be held in Guyana, February 25-28; and the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of the World...
Gene Autry, The Beast and I were sitting around the domino table with Haemorrhoid waiting for a fourth. Yes, you counted right. There were already four present but Haemorrhoid didn’t have a clue and refused to play “Domingoes.” Despite this he was...
I went to see the movie Bob Marley: One Love and I enjoyed it. Although many, like me, have a positive impression of the film, there has also been harsh criticism, especially from some Jamaicans with large followings on social media, including...
That Gordon House remains a challenging if not hostile environment for the physically disabled – as Lambert Brown recently found out – is not so much a case for a new parliament building as a statement of the priority Jamaica, including the State,...
This writing is about sincerity and truth in public life. Both virtues have to be evident and constant in the conduct of governors if a peaceful, non-repressive, productive society is to exist. Mr. Holness has recently called the nation to prayer...
The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) should not waste the opportunity to use its diamond jubilee, the celebration of which its president, Leighton Johnson, launched last week, to assert its place as a thinking institution in the vanguard of...
Mary, aged 58, has been the financial controller at Carryon Ltd for the past 10 years, coordinating and directing the preparation of budgets and financial forecasts for the company. For the past year, it was becoming evident to Mary that the...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Pon February 9, 2024, dis a wa Nationwide Radio post pon fi dem Instagram page: “In public opinion today we ask, ‘ Cindy or Rita?’ Comment below...
Someone in the Government, perhaps the energy minister, Daryl Vaz, ought to take Jamaicans into their confidence about its policy for the state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam. Nearly five years ago, in the aftermath of the scandals over alleged...
In Ireland, where Bob Marley’s father came from, the word means a close friend, an ally, or at the risk of offending my Jamaican friends, a good buddy who has your back. However, in Jamaica, unless it is preceded by the word team or class, ‘mate’...
Once again there has been much discussion about constitutional reform in Jamaica. One issue surrounding our constitutional arrangements is that of the removal of the King of England as our head of state and becoming a republic. Any change to our...
There’s no point in reading this because it’s a total waste of time, Nothing that has been penned has prevented any crime. Nothing that has been written has righted any wrong, Not one single change of heart, it’s been futile all along. There’s no...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF’s) recently announced ‘40 in 40 days’ initiative seems to be sending a signal that social media and its various platforms could become a vital part of the country’s crime-fighting infrastructure. All aspects...
This year, 2024, is the Chinese Year of the Dragon and many of us are hoping that, unlike other mythical fire-breathing animals, it won’t drag on and on. For most people, the old year ended on December 21, 2023. At midnight, we welcomed the new...
In today’s complex global landscape, peace and prosperity face significant threats due to a blatant disregard for international law and the meticulously constructed human rights framework established since the aftermath of World War II. This...
As I drove home from church last Wednesday, three people I encountered asked me what happened to my forehead. “Where did you put your head?” asked the lady gas pump attendant with the pretty smile. “Were you working on a car?” joked Charlie....
In some sense, you are smarter than your great grandparents, who were smarter than their great grandparents, who were smarter than their great grandparents. This is the trend known as the Flynn Effect, first identified by James Flynn four decades...
Mark Golding is right about Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ duty to explain how his government will fund the planned increase of the income tax threshold, which he signalled last week while campaigning for the local government elections. But that...
Unless he has changed his mind about serving a third term, Antony Anderson will step down as Jamaica’s police chief sometime in April. Sadly, not only is there no serious public discussion of his possible successor, there is no obviously...
LAST WEEK I came across a post by Cindy Breakspeare, the mother of popular reggae artiste Damian Marley, one of Bob Marley’s children. It was made on what would have been Bob’s 79th birthday and included multiple photographs of her and Bob and...
